AbstractThis essay will discuss the empowering women and consider its disadvantages and disadvantages. Firstly it will state the disadvantages of empowering women. Some of the disadvantages discussed in this essay are competition, moral problems and family problems. Furthermore, the essay will discuss some of the very important advantages of empowering women. Some of the important advantages are gender equality, leadership and education. Finally the essay will conclude with a thought that despite the advantages of empowering women, there are also some disadvantages that need to be considered.

Essay 1: Empowering women
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of empowering women so that they can hold other positions apart from traditional ones.

Empowerment is vital to sustainable development and the human rights of all. Empowerment is an important aspect of every woman’s life. According to the “Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary” this the term empowering women is the breaking of personal limitation. Women empowerment is very important for the progress and development of any nation. The empowerment of women can take place through education that is enabling women into workforce. Empowerment also takes place by creating awareness programmes. This essay will discuss on the disadvantages of empowering women. To begin with, one of the disadvantages of empowering women is competition in the workforce between men and women. Competition enables women to enter the workforce. As most of the women are now educated they are likely to get employed. These women are more likely to get job which was dominated by men in traditional times. When women are empowered they are more likely to be powerful than men. Thus, this will create more competition in the workforce for the same amount of jobs and possibly the rate of reproduction. Problems that arise due to competition in the workforce are that there is too much stress and work pressure affects health of workers. Thus, competition has a fundamental disadvantage because it will create problems in the workforce. Moreover, empowering women also leads to family problems. Many women do not have a proper understanding about empowerment. As women are empowered and have a full control of their own self, they forget the responsibilities and they get so absorbed in learning new things that they their family. Women most of the times are out of house instead of spending time with family. Children are looked after by someone else and do not get sufficient love from parents. Therefore, this leads to increase in the rate of divorce because of the misunderstanding between the couples. Thus, empowering women is indeed a disadvantage. Furthermore, moral problem is also a disadvantage of empowering women. This is because when women are empowered there attitude changes compared to the attitude when they were not empowered. When they were empowered they do not care about the moral values. This leads to moral problems. This problems occurs because women are educated and employed, they try to rule the entire family. This leads to moral problems such as that they do not have respect for the elder ones. This empowered woman often talks back to their husband and also to other family members. Through this attitude the image of the family is gone bad. Therefore, empowering women does not show only the rights of the women but also responsibilities come with the rights. This essay has considered on the disadvantages of empowering women and now it will look at the advantages of empowering women. The advantages of empowering women are important because women has recognised as the central issue in determining the status in women. The advantages discussed about empowering women are gender equality, leadership and education. For once, one of the advantages of empowering women is gender equality. A critical aspect of gender equality is the empowerment of women, with a focus on...

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